TO NICHOLAEF. 
without intermission. The immense concourse 
of waggons ; the bellowing of the oxen ; the 
bawling and grotesque appearance of the drivers ; 
the crowd of persons in the habits of many dif- 
ferent nations, waiting a passage across the 
water ; offered altogether one of those singular 
scenes, to which, in other countries, there is 
nothing similar. 
Biroslaf, upon the western side of the Dnieper, siroa</. 
is a miserable looking place, owing its support 
entirely in the passage of salt caravans from 
the Crimea,'. Its situation, upon so considerable 
a river, affording it an intercourse with Kiof* and 
(1) “ Berislav is a small town, founded, on a regular plan, by the 
Empress Catherine, on a fine sloping bank near the Dnieper, with a 
floating bridge, which is removed every winter. The river, like the Don, 
is navigated in double canoes, {Sec the Vignette to Chap. XIII. of the 
farmer volume ,) composed of two very narrow ones, often hollowedout 
of trees, and united by a stage. The town has wide streets, at right 
angles to each other; but the houses are, mostly, miserable wooden 
huts. The country around is all good laud, but destitute of water : there 
are, however, many villages, and many acres of cultivated land along the 
hanks of the river; and wherever there is a well, is generally a small 
cluster of houses, attracted by such a treasure. On this side of the 
Dnieper begins the regular series of Jews’ houses, which are the only 
taverns or inns from hence all the way into Austria. Jews, in every 
part of Little aud New Russia, abound. In Muscovy they are very 
uncommon.” llehcr’ s MS. Journal. 
(2) The author will take this opportunity of introducing the notice 
of a very curious discovery made between Kiof and Kremenchtlk, as it 
"as communicated to him by Mons. Tamara, the Russian Ambassador 
at Constantinople \ adding only, that the arrow-heads mentioned by 
Mons. Tamara , many of which are now in the author s possession, have 
been analyzed by IV. H, Wollaston , Esq. M. D. Secretary of the Royal 
Society, 
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CHAP. 
VIII. 
